Posted on 06/05/2020 6:09:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
Last Friday, May 29, was the 567th anniversary of the Islamic conquest of Constantinople, one of ancient Christianity's greatest capitals that for the previous seven centuries had, as Europe's easternmost bulwark, withstood Islam. Lesser known is what immediately transpired — which Turkey is immensely proud of — on the taking of "New Rome," as described in what follows (note: all quotes were derived from contemporary sources, mostly eyewitnesses).
Once inside the city on that fateful May 29, the "enraged Turkish soldiers ... gave no quarter," wrote an eyewitness:
When they had massacred and there was no longer any resistance, they were intent on pillage and roamed through the town stealing, disrobing, pillaging, killing, raping, taking captive men, women, children, old men, young men, monks, priests, people of all sorts and conditions[.] ... There were virgins who awoke from troubled sleep to find those brigands standing over them with bloody hands and faces full of abject fury[.] ... [The Turks] dragged them, tore them, forced them, dishonored them, raped them at the cross-roads and made them submit to the most terrible outrages[.] ... Tender children were brutally snatched from their mothers' breasts and girls were pitilessly given up to strange and horrible unions, and a thousand other terrible things happened[.]
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
In before the you-know-what references.
Islam turned Turkey into a third world country.
I’ve traveled as a tourist all over the world and Istanbul/Constantinople was on my bucket list. The decline and Islamification of Turkey under Pres. Erdogan has made me delist that trip. I was able to see Egypt when it was safe before the ill-fated Arab Spring when Mubarak was kicked out. Mid-East countries seem to need a tough leader or they are chaotic.
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“Islam, this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives.”
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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